It may have been the most surreal moment of the 2007 season: Brandon Coutu lining up for his first-ever game winning field goal (he’d missed the same opportunity against Alabama a few weeks before) to stop a unheard of six game losing skid to Georgia’s SEC East rivals and avoid back-to-back losses to Vanderbilt.

Not to mention that things were a little shaky on that last drive getting Coutu in place to be the hero. Tony Wilson’s big catch at midfield was fumbled by the receiver, who had the good fortune of watching the ball bounce right back to him for the recovery. From there, Georgia was able to drive the ball inside the Vandy 20 before running out of clock and leaving its chances in the hands… ok, foot of Coutu.

He got it done.

(photo courtesy Athens Banner-Herald)

We thought the kick was big because of the bullet that Georgia dodged. Little did we realize at the time how much the season would change from that point.

One response to “Georgia’s ten most memorable plays of 2007, #6”

When TW put that ball on the ground my heart sank. I breathed a (second) sigh of relief after the ball bounced back to him. It’s hard to believe we came that close to losing back to back games to Vanderbilt.

You couldn’t be more right with your last sentence. I really thought we’d do well to win 2 out of our next 5 games after the way we had played the previous two. Oh how little did I know……

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